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If your really bored here is the pdf Harmony Xwindows Hyper-G browser

One other thing: Can you verify your account language settings? Go to google.com/account and click on "language". Note that I think you have to be logged into an account with Google+; I don't see the language option on the non-Google+ account settings. Also keep in mind that this is NOT the stuff I work on in Google and my knowledge about how it works is strictly that of a user. Anyway, I believe your choice there should be reflected across all Google services, and if it isn't somewhere that is clearly a bug (which isn't that unlikely, Google is still in the process of really integrating its various services. Until fairly recently they were all essentially separate and there are still plenty of rough edges on the integration.)

If that doesn't work (and I suspect it won't, since you said you already looked through all of your settings), let me know and I'll file a bug report. In general, picking an appropriate language for a given user is a Really Hard Thing, because you can't necessarily trust geo-location data, because it's basically an informed guess, and you also can't necessarily trust browser settings, because so many users have no clue how to set them and have them wrong. So it's entirely possible that picking Korean for you is working as designed based on data which indicates that trusting the geo data for Korea is less likely to be wrong than trusting the browser.

But there clearly needs to be a simple and obvious way for you to override the auto-selected language choice.

Buffer overflow was a 1960s problem.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=linux+kernel+buffer+overflow+2011 - not even in the Linux kernel it was a problem.

http://code.google.com/opensource/projects.html

In case you missed it.

I've been following NaCl, and it worries me that the compiled code only works on a particular version of Chrome. NaCl 0.5 only works with Chrome 14, 0.4 works with Chrome 13, etc.

http://code.google.com/chrome/nativeclient/docs/running.html#browser

I've sent a couple of feedback reports, posted in the google support groups, nothing.

https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/embed/?place=forum%2Fgoogle-plus-discuss&showsearch=true&showtabs=false&hl=en&fragments=true&parenturl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fintl%2Fen%2F%2B%2Flearnmore%2Fforum%2F#!category-topic/google-plus-discuss/settings/2el5SpYP4OQ

I've got very little patience for this forced "personalization". To be fair, Google isn't the only one who does it:

Apple has recently started doing it with Itunes/Quicktime. English OS, but a couple updates ago suddenly the update wizard is now in Korean.

Intel is a giant pain in the ass. I have my unicode fallback language set to Korean, due to some poor font issues in a few Korean programs. Intel ignores the fact that my OS is in English, and assumes because the unicode fallback language code is Korean, that I MUST want to run everything in Korean.
If I want to use things in English, I need to restart the machine 3 times. Nvidia, does the same. E-mails to these companies have basically been ignored/answered with general incompetence.

Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger allows me to pick English, but if I set my location to Korea, it will change all my e-mail updates to Korean. Not my Windows Live Messenger, not my Hotmail interface, but any notification e-mails I get from the service regarding updates, newsletters, or things like. All Korean. They're completely incapable of dealing with people who may travel and move around the world.

There's no way to have it search what you told it to search any more.

http://www.google.com/#q=%2B%22yes+there+is%22

Normal users often search for vague terms, and don't understand things like operators, so the default has to be to support that majority of users. Power users can learn to use quoting, plus, and other operators, so it is up to you to learn those features and employ them.

If memory serves, I recall hearing that sharks run the gamut from plain oviparous through to placental warm-blooded viviparous.

Ah, yep, here's Google to the rescue.

Sometimes I run across news about discoveries where the commentators are all surprised, but in ways that make me think we need to get over ourselves :) as the utmost pinnacle of evolution or some such nonsense and just realise that we are no more than a combination of various biological strategies that had already been "invented" in numerous other branches of life. We're just a happy accident of much larger processes.

Cheers,

The sandboxing on NaCl actually is relatively incredible. Only a modified subset of x86/amd64/arm is executed - potentially unsafe instructions are not. It's actually a lot like (para)virtualization. Read about it:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client
    http://code.google.com/chrome/nativeclient/faq.html#PreventBreakouts

Well, shit, because I still have a PowerPC Mac on my desk. It's stuck with Firefox 3.6 because they dropped PowerPC support in Firefox 4.

Firefox is being kept alive on PowerPC:
http://code.google.com/p/tenfourfox/
http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/

cool! I found a february 1984 InfoWorld article on IBM's announcment: http://books.google.com/books?id=gC4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12&dq=introduced+PC/IX+ibm&source=bl&ots=2NTHrJUOVl&sig=QZsjE6hvXxCZvHL-WPDFxXrOrp0&hl=en&ei=rqBFTtHKJqeGsgK62J3kBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CFUQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=introduced%20PC%2FIX%20ibm&f=false

The IBM PC version of Coherent came out in 1983, but my version 3.0 which required 80286 was much later, about 1989. A real bargain at $90. First version was for PDP-11 in 1980.

"Safety" here means that code cannot break out of the sandbox - it can, of course, still crash itself, but that would be fully isolated, and cannot be used in the usual manner as a privilege escalation exploit.

Or that's the idea, anyway.

Said native code can be the output of a compiler of any language - there are some restrictions on what the output can look like (e.g. opcodes must be aligned), but there's no inherent restriction on languages. Today, Google supplies a C++ compiler (modded Clang? not sure what it is) that respects those constraints, but anyone can do so as well, including VC++.

I guess in theory there's nothing stopping any compiler from outputting NaCl binaries, but at present none does, except for the aforementioned Google toolchain that comes with the NaCl SDK (which is a modded version of GCC). Code output for NaCl carries the extension ".nexe" -- technically it is native machine language, but the binary won't execute anywhere but inside NaCl. The SDK and its APIs are also changing a lot; .nexes compiled with earlier versions of the SDK won't work with Chrome 14 or later.

I kicked the tires on NaCl for InfoWorld earlier this year.

So, let's figure that out. 250MW of power, on a motorcycle+passenger weighing 500kg (it has to be a pretty heavy bike if the engine itself weighs 227kg I figure).

In one second your bike has 250MJ of kinetic energy, which works out to a speed of 1582 mph. That "only" works out to 72g of acceleration.

But, yes, falls somewhere between a carrier takeoff and an artillery round.

You would probably want one that puts out more that 10-50 KW for powering a car or truck. I believe that 1hp is about equal to .75KW so you would probably want one in the 200 KW to 300 KW range since that would put you between in the 275 to 400hp range. Cars produce a phenomenal amount of power and about 2x as much as waste heat.

I'm inclined to agree with someone above and think they meant MWh.

(7,500 gallons) * (132 * (10^6) joules per gallon) in (megawatts * hours): 275 MWh

I wondered the same thing. Curiously, I can't seem to find much on the web. It's used in breeder reactors: it captures slow-moving neutrons and turns into a uranium isotope with a much shorter half-life (yielding fissile material, hence the name "breeder" reactor), but I don't see how that has to do with heating it or hitting it with a laser.

I did find a book on Google that suggested a laser could knock gamma rays out of gold foil which in turn could accelerate the decomposition of a uranium isotope, but I don't know if that's related to this.

Radioactive decay can't be stimulated by lasers.

Stimulated Radioactive Decay

The Petawatt laser at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory has been used to fire at a gold target to generate gamma-rays that in turn have transmuted iodine-129 (half life of 15.7 million years) into iodine-128 (half life of 25 min). The gamma-rays knocked out a neutron to fulfil the reaction.

You don't have to make the decay nonrandom. You just have to make it much more probable.

To make things worse, in G+ I see ways of muting individual posts and outright blocking a user (which does more than just mute their posts and in my opinion is more of a nuke you'd use on stalkers and during painful breakups.) Typically if a user on Facebook got too spammy I'd just hide their future posts and they could natter on all they like. A quick solution would be to remove them from your general stream, but there seems to be no way to do that without removing them completely from your circles. The only way to retain them in a circle yet filter out their posts is to make a "pariah" circle, drop that user in the circle and only that circle, and then individually browse all non-pariah streams by circle, which is a heck of a lot less convenient than the "hide" drop-down in Facebook. Blocking the user is a bit too harsh, as I may still want them to see my posts, but if they start playing games that update me on the welfare of their pet baby seal every hour or so, removing them from all my circles may be my only recourse!

Mozilla is a competitor. Google does effectively sell browsers, it sells ads, but Mozilla is merely a channel.

FTFY. Chrome nukes that supposition that you just made. Combine that with Chromebook and there's nothing at all accurate in your claims.

Personal "mini" NASs already exist and have for several years, IPv6 works across most modern networks already. I think I was being generous in saying in 3 years we should see fully functional IPv6 networks across the global. Really, they are working right now.

Personal NASes

IPv6 adoption rates

Do you really think it will take 113 years to fully adopt IPv6? It only took 20 years to create the whole internet as we know it. It only took about 70 years to create computers, the internet and most all technological advances as we know them today.

In your opinion, what technological limitation is going to put a 113 year delay on this idea?

I wonder if Dr. Alice Krippen thought the same from the film in my subject-line... that's in regards to your statement I am quoting here:

"Absolutely no HIV DNA was transferred, and so there's absolutely no risk of HIV infection: after the viral DNA is inserted into the cell" - by Samantha Wright (1324923) on Thursday August 11, @12:49PM (#37058534) Homepage

I'm just being "facetious" &/or sarcastic with the film reference though, but the possibility is there... this, to myself @ least, DOES seem a "touch risky", but then again, I have not read the actual parent article yet, I have to say this in fairness.

NOW - From the sounds of it, this sounds like a form of "retroviral gene therapy" (i.e.-> Using viruses to deliver 'payloads' into the enemy via the cellular mountpoints that viruses attach to, & inject nuclear material from).

* Typically, that DOES introduce DNA/nuclear material into a cell though... and, your quote I used even seems to state that same pretty much.

APK

P.S.=> However - From what I have been reading here via others' commentary (which I usually do 1st, & then scan the parent/source articles afterwards)?

Yes, it seems they're actually using white cells modded by HIV infestations to combat cancer here (disclaimer - I have NOT read the article itself YET though, just got up & am having coffee this a.m. only scanning this (this is important stuff I feel is why)).

Some new NEWS/NewsFlash: I've also heard of successes vs. cancer using a compound called INOSITOL (apparently if you eat a lot of rice especially, OR vegetable material in general which is naturally produced in your intestines as a reaction by-product afterwards) completely KILLING LUNG CANCERS IN FOLKS:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=%22INOSITOL%22+and+%22lung+cancer%22&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&oq=

Which like this article, seems to be good news also (& doesn't sound 1/10th as risky either).

(That's some "FYI" 4U, & IF you were NOT aware of it)...

... apk

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Google App Engine. You would have to pay if you outgrew the quotas, but if you out grow the quotas you have a big game and should be profiting from it.

1GB per player? WTF kind of game needs that?!

It always irritates me when I get an obviously sub-optimal route from Google Maps, but it's never clear to me how to actually fix the problem. If Google took feedback from where I actually drove instead, over time the problem might fix itself.

Interestingly enough, they do: Google Map Maker. It was (somewhat negatively) covered here on Slashdot awhile back, but I can't be bothered to find TFA just now.

It's not automatic, but then I don't know that it should be: A lot of what's wrong with a routing system (any of them) are factual errors which in turn lead to incorrect routing.

I've fixed/added/deleted a number of things around my own town, and have had every change (that I didn't screw up myself somehow) be accepted. (Rejected edits came with feedback to improve the submission.)

In particular, Google had some completely bizarre and/or plainly impossible routes to get from my house to the nearest interstate, which made trips out of town very annoying whenever I'd actually take the time to set a destination before leaving.

For instance: I know the right and proper way to get to the highway; but the bitch inside my phone always insisted I was doing it wrong and that I should both drive around the block and use an entrance ramp an extra mile away for no good reason.

It turned out that some intersections were described improperly, with wrong-wayed streets leading to them, and incorrect turn restrictions. A few edits later (and some passage of time), and it's working fine.

Map Maker is a crowd-sourced moderator-based system, apparently including some concept of karma/reputation: Your edits are reviewed by your peers (and if not, eventually by Google), and if they're sane, they're applied. And if you have enough sanity in your edits, eventually it gets get easier/faster to have your edits "stick."

Previous to Map Maker they had a system on their regular Google Maps web interface where you could describe what was wrong (ie: complain) and they'd try to fix it themselves if you bothered to fill out the rather non-complicated form...but I only had about 50% luck with that actually producing correct results.

Thanks, glad I could help. I'm 24, so I can't really say I've experienced what you have yet; that said, I have gone back to games I played as a teenager and noticed I'm not quite as sharp as I was back then. Someday I'm going to be playing these games with my kids and get my ass handed to me in a neat little package. At which point I'll launch into rant about how much better games were in my day, before we had these holo-projectors and full-body control suits that are just used these days to cover up the uninspired cookie-cutter designs of games like Call of Duty: Blood from a Turnip and they were fun because the graphics sucked and it was about gameplay, dammit!

Anyways, I can give you some advice on that PSP as well. Sadly, there's no perfect all-in-one resource for PSP homebrew like there is the Wii; the closest I've found so far is PSP Hacks, especially the forums. If you want to explore your homebrew options, you'll want to install a custom firmware (CFW) on it; which one to use depends on your PSP model and preferences. I personally have a PSP-Go and run 6.39 PRO-B8 on it. Some CFWs install permanently and other require a program to be run every time you start the PSP, which if you use sleep mode instead of turning it off isn't nearly as annoying as it sounds. The homebrew available for it is impressive, though not as good as the Wii; you can get emulators for almost every system up through the N64 - though SNES emulation is a little slow, and N64 is far more so, assuming you can get your game to run at all. Surprisingly, even though SNES emulation isn't perfect GBA emulation is much further along, if you like that platform. And if you have any interest at all in the PSX, the PSP has a near-perfect emulator built in; you can use PSX2PSP to convert disc images into PSP format. It doesn't support dual-shock though, and images with audio tracks are a bit tricky - they don't work at all in 6.xx firmwares.

As for the memory stick, don't bother with them - get a MicroSD-to-Memory-stick adapter instead, like this one. Or if you have a PSP-Go, you have 16GB of flash memory built in. For your media, use PSPVC to convert videos to something that will play on the PSP. If you want to listen to music, it should handle standard MP3s just fine.

more fun if you can have the backup driver in the right-hand seat and a large dog or a Terminator mannequin in the left-hand seat

It would be even more fun with something more like the Airplane! The Movie: autopilot in the left-hand seat

Or perhaps litigant works as well?

litigant
Noun: A person involved in a lawsuit.
Adjective: Involved in a lawsuit: "the parties litigant".

Hey thanks for your lesson in how to not look something up before obnoxiously correcting someone though.

And you would unfortunately be wrong. So hey, thanks for the lesson on how to look stuff up before obnoxiously correcting someone, but please learn to look something up and properly understand WHAT you've looked up.

Litigant is typically applied to the two (or more) parties involved, not the lawyers handling the legal aspects of the case.

Don't hate because you look like an idiot on the internet. But go on and hate because someone made you look stupid, it just reinforces the fact that you are, in fact, an idiot.

See this method of exercising a cat. Sun had internal competitions to get the most ridiculous patent. I have heard rumors that other companies had similar practices back in the 90's. Of course that's not their official policy, but the employees joke around about it.

I got 107 miles. With traffic nowadays, I'd say about 5 hours too.

http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=White+House,+Pennsylvania+Avenue+Northwest,+Washington+D.C.,+DC&daddr=Richmond,+VA&hl=en&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=55.148262,89.296875&geocode=FcB-UQIdxpBo-yEH4pjoGd6e5yknWm_hvLe3iTGGOSyaFzTP2g%3BFUPcPAIdXOph-yntyZlXCRGxiTHFPELibT7Yvw&mra=ls&z=9

Who says it actually resembled a wrench?

GGP did. Maybe you should try reading the thread before replying. Oh wait this is slashdot.

Yes, GGP knew it was supposed to be wrench...perhaps because he had already seen that particular indicator? Just because it looks like a wrench to one person doesn't mean it looks like a wrench to others. I work with Lotus Notes, unfortunately, and I still don't know what the icon for 'Document IDs" is supposed to be. To me it looks like a beanie hat with a propeller on top...WTF??

Who says it actually resembled a wrench?

GGP did. Maybe you should try reading the thread before replying. Oh wait this is slashdot.

Yes, GGP knew it was supposed to be wrench...perhaps because he had already seen that particular indicator? Just because it looks like a wrench to one person doesn't mean it looks like a wrench to others. I work with Lotus Notes, unfortunately, and I still don't know what the icon for 'Document IDs" is supposed to be. To me it looks like a beanie hat with a propeller on top...WTF??

graphic editing

Doable on an iPad according to Google.

You are either a troll or an idiot. In either case, a jackass.

Small computers and cellphones largely do what PC's used to, but they don't even come close to being capable of handling high-end gaming

Which home users tend to do on dedicated devices such as Xbox 360, PLAYSTATION 3, and the forthcoming Wii U.

Only the casual gamers. At a first glance consoles replaces computer games but if you look at the player demographic and how they spend their time there is actually more people playing electronic games now. The consoles have just replaced the deck of cards that were used before.

graphic editing

Doable on an iPad according to Google.

In theory and as a demonstration. It is not the convenient and preferable way to do it.

movie editing, sound editing, and heavy mathematical computation [and] software development

Which, as I understand it, most home users tend not to want to do in the first place. I fear that PCs will become something that only a business buys.

I am surprised that you didn't put graphic editing in the same category since most home users don't do that either.

In practice the portable devices has only replaced traditional desktops for idly browsing the web.

From the early 90s:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5144094928842683632

There are NeXt videos from the late 80s which still have some features that we haven't picked up today. the NeXt system fostered amazing stuff for the 90s which we are still seeing as "new" today its like it rubbed off on other companies who used it... the 1st web browser etc all were done on there. The dock was on there... before the windows crap bar. etc. When Steve left Apple he took the really great people with him; Apple was running on 1985 fumes until it bought NeXt.

Apple has been implementing ideas from the late 80s and early 90s for the last 10 years. The differences are rather minor; the concepts haven't changed from what Steve's dream team thought of back then. Its just refined versions of the same stuff.

Now if the IP nightmare of today existed when Apple started and Steve knew his company was going to lose to cheap copycats -- or more accurately, the hardware business was being killed by the software business; he would have fought to maintain his hardware business like he is doing today but with the IP laws of today (and the stupid new propaganda like "Intellectual Property" a P.R. creation that stifles debate... its like 1984, define the language and control thought.) We'd have nothing like today... Hardware companies would likely be better positioned instead of being junk merchants with low margins and software wouldn't dominate as much as it has under MS's rein. Apple clones may have been allowed; because insane IP would have given them the control they want (and cut of the profits.) Remember, apple had all the big stuff early on; they bought all those Xerox ideas like office networking, mouse, the desktop metaphors, WYSIWYG, all concepts which today people can claim ownership in our broken "IP" system -- which allows for broad concept ownership.

Small computers and cellphones largely do what PC's used to, but they don't even come close to being capable of handling high-end gaming

Which home users tend to do on dedicated devices such as Xbox 360, PLAYSTATION 3, and the forthcoming Wii U.

graphic editing

Doable on an iPad according to Google.

movie editing, sound editing, and heavy mathematical computation [and] software development

Which, as I understand it, most home users tend not to want to do in the first place. I fear that PCs will become something that only a business buys.

but check out this graph for one counterpoint.

Would have been nice to cite the full-size image, or the article in which it appears, rather than a badly resized Google image result, but whatever. The graph you cited compares hourly wages to productivity, and I'm not sure how that relates to standard of living rather than employee productivity. Within its context the graph pretty poorly done; the axis aren't labeled ($140 per hour in 2005?), the description is vague, nothing is said about what was actually measured (or how) and I'd be willing to bet any mention of standard of living doesn't even account for inflation over the 55 years it covers.

Any serious analysis (read: not partisan) of standard of living will show that for most people in the US in the last 30 years, it's gotten better.

Now go and enlighten yourself.

Forgive me for being blunt here, but based on your original post (with a questionable source), and your relatively hostile response to criticism of said post, it looks like the only person stuck on partisan analysis here is you.

and in the U.S. they're usually ignorant racist rednecks.

While I find your point interesting and without egregious error to my superficial reading, I had to chuckle at that last expression. Few people care about being politically correct to white males in America, but it's a little amusing to call a subgroup of a race racist, especially using a racial slur to do so.

Heh, next are you going to tell me that minimum wages don't increase unemployment? Your entire post is basically showing that you've let partisan politics get in your way of seeing reality. You have choice now: you can either choose to reassess your position, and figure out how things really are, or you can pretend this didn't happen and go on blindly.

Your standard of living statistics read like you got them from some leftist propaganda website. Measuring standard of living is difficult of course, for example the French have a different way of measuring it, but check out this graph for one counterpoint. Any serious analysis (read: not partisan) of standard of living will show that for most people in the US in the last 30 years, it's gotten better.

Now go and enlighten yourself.

Apple open sourced Darwin.. What came of that? It was an empty gesture. Apple gets to look like they're giving back, when clearly they're only willing to take from the community.

No Apple user in his right mind wants to go use Darwin+X11 so it's not very visible. But actually the open sourced XNU kernel has been hacked extensively by the people in the hackingtosh community sprouting one fork and a bunch of hacks.

Then there's the webkit, which apple developed from the khtml base and which is now used by virtually every smartphone out there. Is that not giving back ?

The lists say they're Android. The look and name is copied, but not the guts.
Here's a 4gs, the most expensive one I saw:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://item.taobao.com/item.htm%3Fid%3D9120630419

The cheaper ones are even stranger. Here are two. Crummy camera specs, no OS listed.

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://item.taobao.com/item.htm%3Fid%3D10280876140

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://item.taobao.com/item.htm%3Fid%3D12360214272

The lists say they're Android. The look and name is copied, but not the guts.
Here's a 4gs, the most expensive one I saw:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://item.taobao.com/item.htm%3Fid%3D9120630419

The cheaper ones are even stranger. Here are two. Crummy camera specs, no OS listed.

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://item.taobao.com/item.htm%3Fid%3D10280876140

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://item.taobao.com/item.htm%3Fid%3D12360214272

The lists say they're Android. The look and name is copied, but not the guts.
Here's a 4gs, the most expensive one I saw:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://item.taobao.com/item.htm%3Fid%3D9120630419

The cheaper ones are even stranger. Here are two. Crummy camera specs, no OS listed.

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://item.taobao.com/item.htm%3Fid%3D10280876140

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://item.taobao.com/item.htm%3Fid%3D12360214272

so now its a half hour later and I am digging around in a fucking ubuntu forum

You lost computer literacy test in less than five minutes.

http://www.google.com/search?q=ubuntu+java+plugin

In the 1970s, RAND built models they thought could predict fire patterns in New York, and then used them to justify closing fire stations in NYC's poorest sections in the name of efficiency, a decision that would ultimately displace 600,000 people as their neighborhoods burned.

So the source is a wikipedia page, which cites this book, which is a dead end for now.

Are the authors talking about this study?

If anyone's got a source that actually backs up the notion that RAND explicitly recommended closing down fire stations in poor areas, or the actual claims that "they're just committing arson anyway", I'm very curious, as that's a pretty wild claim. I've emailed them for comment.

This page seems to suggest otherwise: http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/getstarted.html

It's right here on google or here.

My argument wasn't that we should bow down to all this and censor ourselves at all. I was just pointing out that with incidents like the above, I see no hyperbole at all in GP's post. Giving these people a database like that IS just like giving a toddler a loaded gun with the hammer pulled back.

While that particular incident was in the U.K., there is plenty to go around, including the great Boston Light Bright scare.

Airwaves, physical in-the-ground right-of-ways, doesn't matter. Both are shared, public resources we grant organizations the privilege of using (either for monetary or in-kind compensation). It doesn't matter if you have to pay for them or not. Paying for something doesn't mean there aren't strings attached.

Doesn't Verizon have to allow open access to any device on the 700mhz frequency band they purchased the right to use due to rules Google asked the FCC to stipulate?

http://www.google.com/search?q=verizon+google+700mhz

What about all the Firefox specific pages out there?

That's a pretty bold accusation. First time I ever heard of something like that. Do you have any example?

Or the addons that ONLY work with Firefox?

Are you being deliberately obtuse, or did you just hope no one would click on your link and notice you totally misrepresented what the article is about? It's an article about addons that only work with Firefox 4, written back in February when it was the fresh version, to give examples of the new capabilities of the browser. What the fuck does this have to do with standard compliance and compatibility of websites? If you had an example of, say, a website that would require a specific Firefox add-on to work, that would be relevant to the discussion. The article you linked mentions nothing like that.

Then there is that pesky Chrome License which is, - wait, MORE permissive than Firefox's!!!

Come on! This BSD vs. GPL debate is getting old...

I have no problem with browsers stealing features from one another as Nightingale seems to lament.

Where the hell have you seen him lament about that? That would be completely contradictory to everything Mozilla stands for!

I'm assuming the cameras are big because they hold a get nice big, high sensitivity, sensors and probably low F-number lens. Motion blur on something like this would make things MUCH more computationally difficult compared to snapping a clean picture and figuring out which way the camera is now facing. Motion blur can be estimated, but you wouldn't want to do that every frame...